Viva la France?

The highlighted country on the map to the left is France. There seems to be a chicken looking at the map of France. Under the chicken it say Rossignol. Why is this important you ask? I'll tell you why...

 Our Fall Sale starts tomorrow. We will  have a LOT of skis from last year marked way down in price to make room for the new gear. Alongside these skis will be the exciting new skis that have just arrived for the 2015/16 ski season. For the first time, some of these will be from France. France is where Rossignol comes from. Rossignol has been in the ski business since 1907 and has many Olympic and World Cup victories. We have not sold Rossignol in the past, but we have always had a healthy respect for this iconic brand. We have continually tested the Rossignol skis over the years and the current models ski incredibly well and offer some fantastic values. After many years of stocking primarily central Euopean skis, we have said "Viva la France!". 

While we still love our Swiss, German and Austrian skis we would like to think we have evolved and become more open minded. We simply believe that Rossignol skis are some of the best right now and are pleased to finally offer Rossignol skis to our customers! 

So come on down and score some big savings on boots, skis or whatever else you need the next few weeks. The sale runs through September 13th. And while you are here, check out the latest and greatest from France! 

Will it be a GODZILLA El Nino?

Every year there are lot's of forecasts for the upcoming winter. As a ski shop owner I tend to want to scan all the various predictions until I find the ones I like. Every year SOMEBODY thinks it will be a good snow year. Sometimes it is the National Weather Service, other times it is the Farmers Almanac. Some years it could even just be Tim from Alameda who has a hunch it will snow a lot.

  This year tall the forecasts seem to be similar- "HUGE EL NINO!" they are shouting. One newscaster last week even called it a "Godzilla" El Nino. I wasn't sure how a huge Japanese monster had anything to do with yearly precipitation, but I am thinking Godzilla might be fun to ski with?

Anyway, it is hard to argue with the science behind it as I simply do not do my own ocean temperature monitoring. I just have to trust people that do it for a living. It is looking right now that it could be one of the strongest El Nino's since 1950. That could be very very good news for us powder starved skiers here in the sunshine state! We were talking today about how much we have used our race skis the last few years as we mainly had firm snow to ski on. It would be nice to spend more time on the fat skis this year!

You can read more about El Nino's if you are inclined here:

 http://opensnow.com/news/post/el-nino-part-1-what-is-el-nino-and-as-skiers-why-do-we-care?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20150817

Whatever happens we will be here to help you have a great ski season. Boxes of goods are arriving every day. We open them, geek out at how cool it all is, and put it away for you to check out when you come in. We are currently getting ready for our big Fall Sale which starts on the 29th of August and runs through September 13. All the gear left from last year is at closeout "just get rid of it!" prices, and the 2015/16 stuff is on sale too with all of it's shiny newness! Come on down and check it out. Gear up for a Godzilla year!